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4 CENTRAL CANTERBURY NEWS, AUGUST 26, 2015 Conversations ‘‘There will be some disappointed people when the All Blacks World Cup squad in announced on Sunday.’’ LAND TRANSPORT ISSUES Following the results of last week’s satisfaction survey, which revealed land transport was one of the lowest performing areas within council, the Selwyn District Council responded to questions from our reporter. Whatsort of message does this send council? The survey highlights areas where performance is improving or needs attention. Generally satisfaction with roading activities has remained relatively stable during a time of high growth in Selwyn. Wenote there is a high neutral response formany activities. This can indicate that people do not use a service (eg public transport, cycleways, or footpaths for rural residents) and therefore don’t feel able to comment, or that people have a neutral view of council’s performance. For all transport services except for rural roads, the number of people saying a service is good or very good is considerably higher than the number of people saying performance is poor or very poor. Whatdoes the council have inmind to rectifythis? Funding for road maintenance over the next three years is 21 per cent higher than between 2012-2014. Selwyn’s roading network covers 2440km. Roading is co-funded by NZTAand they have agreed with council that further investment was needed to deal with growth related pressures. Selwyn’s high growth places specific demands on our roading network. Rural roads originally designed as low traffic roads are being used more by heavy vehicles like milk tankers. Subdivision construction creates extra traffic throughout the roading network and also creates disruption whennew intersections and utility services are installed for subdivisions. Weare aware of the need to invest more on rural roads. In 2014 westarted investing more on road maintenance as government support for this area has not kept pace with traffic and heavy vehicle growth.Weplan to continue investing more on rural roads. Between 2014 and 2015, resident satisfaction increased by 4 per cent. Spring stock arriving weekly Selwyn District Council asset manager Murray Washington. Weare pleased to see satisfaction with cycleways has improved from 33 per cent in 2014 to 53 per cent, as this was the second lowest rated transport area in the 2014 survey.Twonew cycleways opened this year, between Springston and Lincoln and Lincoln and Rolleston.We will develop three more cycleways within the next four years. Plans are under way to address the extra traffic generated from growth. The council and the NZTAare fast tracking investigations and projects to deal with increasing traffic in Rolleston’s industrial areas. The ‘‘‘It’s beenmybiggest focus for the last three years and hopefully I can achieve that.’’ –West Melton Rio sevens hopeful SamDickson construction ofStage 2 of the Southern Motorway byNZTA (starting in 2016) will improve access to Christchurch and relieve pressure on rural roads. In Rolleston $19m will be spent on roads and intersection improvements. Investigations are also under way into improvements for cyclists and pedestrians in Lincoln’s town centre. Significant improvements are planned around Prebbleton to roads and intersections connecting to Stage 2 of the Southern Motorway extension. Combined funding for road safety isnow around $750,000 annually, co-funded by NZTA. Public transport services are provided by Environment Canterbury. – Selwyn District Council asset manager, Murray Washington NB: The graph on the front of last week’s Central Canterbury News mayhave inadvertently given the impression that some of the results were in the negative. In fact it was used only to convey the movement of the measurement year on year.Weapologise for any confusion. FACEBOOK CHATTER Ontalk of a 110km/hr motorway speed limit: That 10 km/h is another 16 metres of emergency braking distance. Fantastic, the grim reaper can hardlywait! – Lance McLure stuff.co.nz HAVE YOUR SAY We welcome your thoughts and your letters. Email the editor: shannon.beynon@fairfax media.co.nz. Join us on our Facebook page: facebook.com/ midcantyherald, or if your thoughts run to 140 characters or less, you’re welcome to tweet the editor: @ShannonBFFX. Join the conversation. 6831177AA SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE UP TO 34% Prebbleton Village | Ph 3495-646 www.smithandboston.co.nz 6849810AA www.mags4gifts.co.nz you say we say